A profile of poisoning cases admitted in SRN Hospital, Allahabad with special reference to aluminium phosphide poisoning Sinha US, Kapoor AK, Agnihotri AK, Srivastava PC1 1 Department of Forensic Medicine & Toxicology, M. L. N. Medical College, Allahabad, U. P. Abstract An epidemiological study in Allahabad range was conducted for a period of one year to analyse the incidence of prevalence, death rate, nature of poisoning and relevance of religion, sex, age etc, in poisoning cases. The present study was conducted on 285 poisoning cases admitted in emergency ward of SRN Hospital, Allahabad during the period October 1997 to September 1998. Out of these, 96 persons expired despite treatment; 164 cases recouped and discharged; and the rest 25 cases left hospital against medical advice. It was observed that majority (69.47%) of cases were males. Younger age group (l5-30 years) people were predominantly (63.86%) affected. A large chunk belonged to Hindus comprising of approx. 85% of all alleged poisoning cases. 61.8% cases belonged to rural areas. On taking history the identity of the poison was revealed only in 246 cases. Majority of patients (42.1%) took aluminium phosphide (Celphos), followed by organophosphorus, zinc phosphide, methyl alcohol, etc. Regarding the nature of poisoning, approx. 87% were found to be suicidal followed by accidental (7.37%) then homicidal. Occurrence of poisoning were more comqlOn in daytime. The mortality was highest (90%) amongst the aluminium phosphide afflicted persons followed by zinc phosphide, organophosphorus, etc. Top Key Words Pesticide, Celphos, Rodenticides, Suicide. Top |